Example sentences of "[adv] bold as " in BNC.
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1 | A local priest was even so bold as to call the system ‘ a home-brew democracy … . |
2 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
3 | A bold statement , but not nearly so bold as Kingsley Amis , who admires Lonsdale 's whole project , and Leapor in particular . |
4 | What makes you so bold as to Come back ? ’ |
5 | Almost certainly it would have been the executors , after consultation with the family , as not even a cabinet-maker used to the undertaking trade would have been so bold as to have proceeded with such an elaborate item without having first enquired of the executors . |
6 | One reviewer of the present state of the debate ( J. L. Marx 1980 ) ably summarises all the points of failing in the collection of data and their interpretation , but makes so bold as to write : |
7 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
8 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
9 | ‘ I notice , ’ he said in good English , ‘ that you have been so bold as to ask for food at this late hour . |
10 | Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage . |
11 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
12 | Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’ |
13 | Yet , if pain remains , who would be so bold as to decide when the patient 's limit of tolerance has been reached ? |
14 | She marched into his big library as bold as brass , and stood in front of his favourite chair . |
15 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
16 | She rode along , swaggering like a man , till she came to where the lane turned into the field , and there she called out as bold as brass : now , please the powers I may find a tiger in the field ! |
17 | ‘ As bold as brass ! ’ the Earl confirmed , his eye kindling . |
18 | United are as bold as brass St Johnstone1 Dundee United4 |
19 | United are as bold as brass Magee to the rescue |
20 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |